Winthrop’s Xavier Cooks and Miami’s Dejan Vasiljevic each scored 13 to lead the Aussies.

Women’s basketball: Ieshia Small scored 17 points and Kaila Charles dropped 15 with 11 rebounds as Maryland cruised past the Czech Republic, 73-52, to finish first in Pool C and advance the USA to the medal round.

The American trailed 17-15 after the first quarter but piled on points with a 24-15 advantage in the second and 20-3 domination of the third.

Fencing: The United States women took silver in team epée after a nailbiting 45-44 battle against Ukraine. The team, comprised of Princeton’s Anna Van Brummen, Katharine Holmes and Catherine Nixon and Penn State’s Barbara Van Benthuysen, collected the first fencing medal for the USA in this year’s Universiade.

Swimming: Emory University’s Andrew Wilson (USA) won his second gold of the World University Games with a 2:08.45 finish in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke. Wilson outpaced Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandinby 1.25 seconds for the victory.

Wilson also won gold in Sunday’s 100-meter breaststroke.

Texas alum Will Licon (USA) finished seventh in the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:10.75.

Penn State’s Shane Ryan held off North Carolina State’s Justin Ress (USA) for the victory by .01 seconds in the men’s 50-meter backstroke, claiming a gold medal for Ireland, the country’s first medal in the 2017 Universiade.

Georgia’s Taylor Dale finished fourth.

The USA women just missed the top of the podium, finishing .04 seconds behind Russia in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. Team Canada, which included five NCAA athletes, finished fifth.

Missouri’s Hannah Stevens (USA) took silver in the women’s 100-meter backstroke, just .09 seconds off the pace of gold medalist Sian Whittaker of Australia.

Fellow Bruins Terri Fleming and Jada Hart bowed out of the women’s singles third round. Fleming fell 2-0 to Japan’s Haruka Kaji and Hart lost a third-set tiebreaker and match to India’s Bhuvana Kalava.

The pair will continue in women’s doubles and Hart will team with Redlicki in mixed doubles.